Bug#586714: pbuilder --debuild aborts without visible error message

[Marc Haber]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.196
Severity: normal

Hi,

pbuilder --debuild, called in a directory with an unpacked Debian
source package, results in
pbuilder execute /usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-internal
This shifts, leaving $1 and $@ empty, which results - indirectly - in
a call to
chroot $BUILDPLACE copy-of-pdebuild-internal (without additional
parameters). pdebuild-internal then does cd "$1", which translates to
cd "" (which looks wrong anyway). The following shift tries to shift
an empty argument list which leads to abort of the entire process,
thanks to set -e, without any error message whatsoever.

If I'm using pbuilder --debuild wrong, the manpage needs to be
improved and pdebuild-internal needs to be changed to print a helpful
error message in the case that it's called without parameters - it
seems to need parameters.

If I'm using pbuilder --debuild correctly, then it's showstopperbuggy.

Greetings
Marc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.5      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   3.2.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     /usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-in Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                          1.12-2     retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.64    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.7.2p7-1  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pbuilderrc changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded